Posted on 09/06/2012 8:00:28 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gallup: Obama Enjoys Massive Lead Among Those With No Religion By Terence P. Jeffrey September 6, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama enjoys a massive lead over Mitt Romney among registered voters who say they have no religion, according to the Gallup tracking poll of the presidential race.
In the three-week period that ended on Sept. 3, according to Gallup, Obama led Romney 69 percent to 23 percent among those who have no religion. That was exactly the same result Gallup got in the previous three-week period ending Aug. 26.
Since Gallup started publishing demographic breakouts of its tracking poll on May 6, Obama has always held a large lead among registered voters who say they have no religion. Even so, he has managed to grow that lead.
In the three week period ending May 6, Obama led Romney 63 percent to 27 percent among registered voters with no religion.
Romney leads Obama in other religious categories that Gallup tracks. He leads Obama 47 percent to 45 percent among registered votes who say they are Catholic, 54 percent to 39 percent among those who say they are Protestant or Christian, 58 percent to 35 percent among those who say they are “highly religious” and 47 percent to 45 percent among those who say they are “moderately religious.”
Among registered voters who say they are “nonreligious,” Obama holds a 62 percent to 31 percent lead—not quite as large as his 69 percent to 23 percent lead among those who say they have no religion.
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“At their convention Democrats boo God and cheer Obama”
Same thing happened in Nazi Germany.
Christians can tell you when they were baptised. Obummer can’t. He’s a muslim. Has been his entire life.
Just for the record, Helen Keller was deeply religious - see her book ‘My Religion’ republished as ‘Light in My Darkness’ available on Amazon.
I’m an agnostic; as such, I have no relegion, and I find the idea of voting for Obama unimaginable. While I don’t agree with Romney on every social issue (I lean Libertarian on such things) I’m in full agreement with the Republican platform on economic and foreign policy issues. That being the case, I’ll be voting a straight Republican ticket.
They don’t believe in Job from the Bible and they don’t believe in Jobs for Americans.
Bear...woods
To some extent, you're right.
More precise is the fact that rational values underlie freedoms leading to prosperity.
There is no contradiction between Christian values and rational values. The rational values the underlie freedoms leading to prosperity reflect Christian values.
Intellectual values do not guarantee freedom. The most celebrated “intellectuals” of the 19th and 20th Centuries stated that communist societies were superior to free societies and that communism was the inevitable wave of the future.
It was a devout Catholic with an 8th grade education, no wealth and no political power who began the movement that defeated communism at the same time the elitist PhD’s were saying communism would always triumph.
If I may give you food for thought: I don't think you're right here.
It is a famous saying, and true, that "anything may be rationalized". What is "rational" may float, and indeed always floats, depending on both the situation and on who is doing the judging.
What underlies freedom? First, that it is endowed upon us by the same Creator that created every last bit of matter and energy in the Universe/Multiverse/Creation. In other words, the Creation was done on purpose, hence life was created on purpose. One (some?) of those forms of life are created in the likeness and image of the Creator, and He has given that life something that no other part of His creation can take away: freedom.
I can understand how that latter half can be a bit hard to swallow, but here's the thing: societies that reject this philosophy, and try to run on only empirical logic, fail. Look at ancient Greece - they recognized that there was a "prime mover" that kicked off all of creation, and they excelled at logic and philosophy. (Yes, there were "Greek Gods", but later they were all rejected by the ruling class.) What happened to them? They became the "intellectual slaves" of the Romans.
What else underlies freedom? The sacrifice needed to protect it. Sacrifice is almost never "rational" - indeed, it goes against the very notion of self-preservation and wealth accrual. Those sacrifices are made by people, on the whole, who recognize just Who gave us that gift of freedom, and would rather do His will than enrich themselves.
I love logic, but I find that it is so incomplete to form a beautiful society. Trying to understand God, as described by Christian / Jewish texts, can show how a balance of logic, wisdom, and sacrificial love can form the legs of a beautiful and lasting world.
Oh, they have a religion alright, one of the Devil. As the song says, “You’re gonna serve somebody. It may be the Devil, or it may be the Lord, but you’re gonna serve somebody”.
It’s no surprise. Many of them are fans of John Lennon’s song “Imagine”, the ultimate Communist song. “Imagine no religion”...
God is anathema to communist statists.
Response: If I may give you food for thought: I don't think you're right here.
I don't hold with any claim saying that irrational values underlie freedoms leading to prosperity.
Indeed when blue states vote.
A+.
Well, I don’t really have a religion and I can’t stand the sight of him. Or the rest of the Marxist cabal that surrounds him.
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